Elizabeth Short’s mother was told her daughter had won a beauty contest. It was a reporter’s trick to get her talking, and the truth came minutes later. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring covers the morning Elizabeth was found, the newspaper war that rewrote who she was, and an envelope of her belongings scrubbed clean of every fingerprint.

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